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Saturday, 18 July 2026

Agent Skills Introduced by Anthropic

Anthropic introduced agent skills which have now been embraced by other vendors too e.g. Microsoft.

Agent skills are a standardized way to extend agent capabilities with specialized knowledge and workflows.  It consists of a folder containing a SKILL.md file.  This contains metadata and instructions for the agent to do its task.

Other stuff can be bundled with the skill as well, as follows.

agents-new-skill/ ├── SKILL.md # Required: metadata + instructions ├── scripts/ # Optional: executable code ├── references/ # Optional: documentation ├── assets/ # Optional: templates, resources └── ... # Any additional files or directories